{"id":12705,"date":"2014-07-27T07:48:45","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T12:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=12705"},"modified":"2014-07-27T07:55:44","modified_gmt":"2014-07-27T12:55:44","slug":"nyt-series-on-legalization-of-marijuana-still-a-fourth-amendment-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=12705","title":{"rendered":"NYT series on legalization of marijuana, still a Fourth Amendment issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is not a drug advocacy blog, but so many cases involve dubious arrests for possession of marijuana and rousting people of color that this is relevant here. The New York Times started yesterday a six part series on legalization, starting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/07\/27\/opinion\/sunday\/high-time-the-public-lightens-up-about-weed.html?hp&#038;action=click&#038;pgtype=Homepage&#038;module=c-column-top-span-region&#038;region=c-column-top-span-region&#038;WT.nav=c-column-top-span-region&#038;_r=0\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Intro, Our Position, July 26, 2014<br \/>\nPart 1, States\u2019 Rights, July 27, 2014<br \/>\nPart 2, Criminal Justice, July 29, 2014<br \/>\nPart 3. History, July 30, 2014<br \/>\nPart 4, Health, Aug. 1, 2014<br \/>\nPart 5, Track Records, Aug. 3, 2014<\/p>\n<p>From yesterday: &#8220;Only a minority of Americans now think it\u2019s the government\u2019s responsibility to discourage that behavior through the criminal justice system. A majority believe that the war on marijuana has failed and that it\u2019s time to end it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not a drug advocacy blog, but so many cases involve dubious arrests for possession of marijuana and rousting people of color that this is relevant here. The New York Times started yesterday a six part series on legalization, &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=12705\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12705"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12709,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12705\/revisions\/12709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}